Been messing around in practice range. You pick your perk when the gauge fills.
Why not pick your perks before the game? Then get your perks when the gauge fills. 1, 2, and 3.
I suppose you could need that specific perk for an unforeseen situation. 
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The advantage i see is Perks are very much context-dependent. My choice is Perks relates directly to how well or not well my team is doing.
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This, but in the same sentences I can not tell you how many games, I accidentally picked the wrong perks during team fights. So having the option to have a pre-set perks selected would be nice, especially for those heroes who you know I am going to pick these two perks no matter the circumstances.
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Yeah an option could be welcome. Those who wanna choose them conditionally could just turn it off(= default value).
I made a thread with suggestions, Mercy and Sombra's Perks Changes Suggestions (Click Here)
How I would change Sombra’s Perks
MINOR PERKS :
Viral Efficacy: Viral cooldown is reduced by 3 seconds when an enemy affected by virus is eliminated. Also Virus becomes an AoE affecting those around the original users of 5 meters.
CTRL ALT ESC: Translocator now gains a second charge, auto reloading when she triggers stealth.
MAJOR PERKS:
White Hat: Hack can be used on allies to restore 100 health over 2 seconds. If the allies are already full or restore to full, the remainder would convert to over shields. When successfully hacking a teammates, her cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds. Hacked Health Packs- now grants ultimate charge.
Stack Overflow: Hack silence duration is increased by 100%, and chain hack is enable again. Successful hack will grant Sombra a temporary 25 HP shield for 5 seconds.
Simple solution for this would be to allow players to switch the auto-buy before you get enough XP to unlock the next perk.
Giving players the ability to swap it as many times as they please before they get the level up would make this system a lot less clunky than it is now.
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it just needs to be removed it was a severely bad designed system
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Honestly, I don’t think OW2 needs it.
This would be awesome. Right now, it’s almost impossible to pick your perk midfight.
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Im having fun timing my Perk activations. A new challenge in patience and timing.
I guess it makes joining a match mid-fight kinda nice, since 1 Perk is usually available from the start. And if 2 are ready, you know the match is almost over…
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it seems like only some perks work like some are extemely op wiith operks
I think for the minor perk this would be nice. For the major perk, you will likely be picking depending on what the enemy has done (or at least that’s the idea), so that one should probably not be an auto select.
I actually think they should do 3 levels and let you pick one in spawn, 2 and 3 in game. My main’s perks are so underwhelming that I want more stuff.
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Out of curiosity, which ones do you tend to pick for Sombra?
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This is my concern as well if pre game perk selection were to be implemented.
I wonder, to please people like OP, if we had an option in settings to turn on preselect. Which would make it so you can preselect perks before the game starts, and then you can simply quick press L+ALT to apply the preselection perk. But to make it so they are still able to choose perks, make a long press of L+ALT bring up the standard perk menu.
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I had a similar thought cause I often pick my perks based on the map more so than on what the enemy team is playing or my own team. There are times where I change my mind during the game (before I pick my perks), but most of the time (and I guess it may depend on who I’m playing) I either play the same perks no matter what or I pick the perks depending on the map.
Or maybe sort of “pre-pick” the perks you think you’d want at the start of the game, but this just highlights that perk more when they pop up, so when you pop them up to actually select one, one of them is very distinct at a glance and you can decide “Yes, go with the one that is all bright and colorful, that’s the one I “pre-selected” and I don’t have to double check and read the first part of it to make sure I’m picking that one” or “ok, no. I actually want the other one, so I’ll pick the one that isnt’ all bright and colorful this time.”
Just something that will help you pick them at a glance, in under a second rather than pulling them up in the middle of a fight and trying to rush to read the one you want.
Maybe being able to pick “favorite” perks between the options to make it stand out more?
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UGH THIS.
As support, I’ve had a few teammates die right in front of me because I had to go to the perks screen to make my selection. I myself got stomped out on that screen.
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Honestly I normally just do the Virus cooldown reduction and the White Hat ( Hack teammates)
Since the range nerf for hack is is actually huge just for the 2 seconds of silence. It is not worth it, though hacking teammates can mess up hack targeting since when I sometime try to hack or want to hack an enemy, it will snap to a teammate instead. I rather just deal with that opposed to having hack go from 15m to 10.5 meters.
This honestly would be a nice quality changes for perks selecting.
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